According to most dictionaries, the word ‘unspeak’ – meaning to recant or unsay – is now largely obsolete. It exists in another time and place, and so it is hard to pin down, impossible to know fully.

Leonard Nimoy used to do the Vulcan mind-meld with his fingers spread on your face — my mind to your mind, my thoughts to your thoughts — and just like that he had your secrets. Spooky. Beautiful, too ...

For those who like their art more challenging Modern Art Oxford is currently showing Unspeak the Chorus. The 2026 Turner Prize nominated exhibition by British artist Kira Freije features a new body of ...

The winner will be announced in December. Kira Freije, Between sunlight (2023) exhibited in "The Throat is a Threaded Melody" at E-WERK Luckenwalde, 2023. Documentation by Jens Ziehe.

Simeon Barclay, Tanoa Sasraku, Kira Freije and Marguerite Humeau nominated for ‘rich and diverse range of work’ An artist who performed an hour-long spoken-word piece about his upbringing in ...

The shortlist for the Turner Prize, the UK’s most prestigious art award, was announced today at a press conference broadcast online from Tate Britain in London. The four shortlisted artists are Simeon ...

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It became clear to me while compiling this list that in 2025 I was most compelled by exhibitions that leant into materiality. In a year marked by bafflement at the looming spectre of AI, the rise of ...

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George Orwell claimed in his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language” that English was in a bad way: common consensus (which he was satirizing) held “that any struggle against the abuse of ...

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